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A Plus-One Playoff Is Unlikely

NEW YORK – While Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany admits they're losing the "PR war" with supporters for a college football playoff, Delany and the other automatic-qualifying BCS commissioners haven't softened their stance against a playoff. In fact, the automatic-qualifying BCS commissioners say they're less likely...

Jim Delany Warns Non-AQ Leagues: Don't Expect More Than You're Getting

NEW YORK – Inside The W Hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, they sat side-by-side on a platform. Five of the most powerful men in college athletics -- the conference commissioners from the Big Ten, SEC, Pac-10, Big 12 and Big East. Also part of the panel was Western Athletic Conference commissioner Karl...

Administrators Agree on Little but Unite on No Compensation for Student-Athletes

NEW YORK – It's interesting. You can put athletic administrators from across the country in the same building and they seem to disagree on just about every burning issue in intercollegiate athletics. Conference realignment. A football playoff versus the bowl system. The number of years of eligibility a...

Cal Addressed Fake Injury Issue, Suspended Defensive Line Coach

Cal suspended defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi for Saturday's season finale against Washington for instructing a player to fake an injury in the 15-13 loss to Oregon on Nov. 13. The announcement came after the Bears lost 16-13 to Washington, a defeat that knocks Cal out of bowl contention for the first time since Jeff...

Stanford Keeps Things From Changing Too Much in Pac-10

In some ways, change is coming to the Pac-10 a year before Colorado and Utah join the league and new logo gets a quick facelift. The big news to come out of media day was that the conference has changed the format for its postseason tournament. The women will play the final two rounds of the tournament at the Staples...

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06/03/12 Catching up with ... Dennis Erickson Source: Coeur d'Alene Press - Coeur d'Alene ID For the first year since he started his career as a grad assistant in 1969, Dennis Erickson is preparing for a fall season that doesn't include coaching football.
06/02/12 Educator heading to Hall of Fame Source: Lawrence Journal-World & 6 News - Lawrence KS A Lawrence educator who started her career teaching students to use manual typewriters and went on to oversee the first junior high computer lab in the district is being inducted today in the Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame. Brilla Highfill Scott, who taught business classes at Lawrence High School and was principal at West Middle School, is one of nine teachers being honored in Dodge City today.
06/01/12 RINGO: It's wait and see if playoff really solves... Source: Boulder Daily Camera - Boulder CO The biggest news of the college football offseason has been the debate regarding abandoning the current system for selecting who plays for the national title each year and moving to some form of playoff system where the champion is determined on the field.
06/01/12 Pac-12 remains open to playoffs, but Scott wants... Source: CBS - KPIX 5 - San Francisco CA While the SEC and other conferences have made clear their stance on a future college football playoff structure , the Pac-12 enters their annual summer meetings with an open mind and lack of consensus with regard to any stance they will take in the evolution of the postseason.
06/01/12 Pac-12 looks to expand again, onto Chinese TV Source: Los Angeles Business - Los Angeles CA Larry Scott put the Pacific-12 Conference on the map in the United States last year with a record-setting television contract.

Background on larry scott

Larry Scott (born ) is an American sports administrator and former professional tennis player who is currently the Commissioner of the collegiate Pacific-12 Conference.

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